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Two prominent Haitian community leaders on Tuesday called on residents to consider boycotting travel to the Dominican Republican as they denounced what they described as a humanitarian crisis spurred by that island nation's new deportation policy targeting migrant people of Haitian descent. Haitian and Dominican community leaders gathered at the State House on Tuesday to rally against the Dominican Republic's policy toward those of Haitian descent, many of whom have lived for generations in the Dominican Republican along the border of the two counties.

The Caribbean Community says it disagrees with statements that the 15-member regional grouping "has been slow" to deal with the on folding situation in the Dominican Republic where people of Haitian descent are being deported from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean country. "I disagree, I fundamentally disagree, "Caricom Secretary General Irwin La Rocque told the Caribbean Media Corporation ahead of the July 2-4 summit of regional leaders in Barbados.

Roughly 400 guests filed into the open-air building in the South Beach section of Miami that glowed green and yellow last Thursday to get a first look at Escurio, Davidoff Cigars' new Brazilian smoke. Part of Davidoff's "Black Label" series, which includes the company's lauded Nicaragua blend , Escurio is being rolled in Santiago, Dominican Republic, at the company's factory with a mixture of Brazilian Mata Fina and Dominican filler tobaccos, a Brazilian cubra binder and an Ecuador Habano wrapper that is dark, shiny and oily.

None of the resorts and hotels want to see the deportations happen considering, among other things, that French-speaking Dominicans of Haitian descent are an essential part of a staff serving international visitors. And while boycotts hurt the people on the lowest end of the labor chain, they're often one of the few things to get leaders' attention.

On a grim, treeless street in central Santo Domingo, a few miles from where Bartholomew Columbus established this, the Americas' first European-founded city, the Interior Ministry of the Dominican Republic rises fourteen stories from a plinth of ridged concrete. The official name of the complex, the Juan Pablo Duarte Government Offices, honors a hero of the D.R.'s fight for independence, in the nineteenth century.

PARIS, France -- The first half of 2015 has been arduous for journalists in the Dominican Republic, with physical attacks, threats, prosecutions and a murder. Freedom of information is also weakened by continuing impunity for crimes of violence against media personnel and the concentration of media ownership in few hands.

Port-au-Prince---Haiti's Prime Minister Evans Paul slammed the Dominican Republic's deportation policy as discriminatory, after Santo Domingo ejected undocumented Haitian immigrants from its territory. The deportations took place over the past week since the Dominican Republic imposed the so-called National Plan for the Regularization of Foreigners, which calls for non-citizens to complete registration to establish legal residency or else leave the country.

About 200 people attended a reception and exhibition to celebrate the graduation of the first-ever students who completed a new advanced study program for menswear at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles. At the exhibition, the seven menswear students in the program displayed three looks from their collections and then were graded by a panel of judges on things such as tech packs, fabrics and colors, and accessories collections to go with three apparel groups, themes and distribution strategies.

Victoria's Secret model Arlenis Sosa has married Donnie McGrath during a stunning beach-side ceremony in her native Dominican Republic. The raven-haired beauty and the US-born basketball player tied the knot during a beach-side ceremony in her native Dominican Republic.

"There's a state of terror,'' in Santo Domingo, the Dominican capital, referring to the country's humanitarian crisis, with the Dominican government threatening to deport hundreds of thousands of people - Dominicans of Haitian descent and undocumented immigrants from Haiti. DA az spoke Wednesday night at a panel discussion in Miami protesting the Dominican government's actions, which called for a deadline last Wednesday for thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent to register to stay in the country.

Alvernia student Brooke Deamer, of Hanover, will apply her studies of water filtration to the Santo Domingo barrio in the Dominican Republic. Deamer is studying communication at the university and completed a cross-discipline biology/communication course in the spring, during which students studied water filtration and literacy.

Saint-Soi Souverin sat on a bench resting and thinking about his plight after being uprooted from his longtime home on the other side of the border in the Dominican Republic, far from the Haitian shelter where he is staying. Dominican authorities deported the 35-year-old farm worker along with his wife and four children early this week, leaving Souverin to ponder what he will do in Haiti - a deeply poor country that he left at age 17 to find work in the relatively more prosperous Dominican Republic.

People waited anxiously in long lines throughout the Dominican Republic on Wednesday, eager to submit applications for legal residency before a midnight deadline and avoid possible deportation. Many had been waiting since the night before, clutching documents they hoped would be sufficient to establish their legal status and allow them to stay in a country that, for some at least, is the only home they have ever known.

People waited anxiously in long lines throughout the Dominican Republic on Wednesday, eager to submit applications for legal residency before a midnight deadline and avoid possible deportation. Many had been waiting since the night before, clutching documents they hoped would be sufficient to establish their legal status and allow them to stay in a country that, for some at least, is the only home they have ever known.

Jean Thezon, 26, left, stands with girlfriend Milene Monime, 16, as they look back toward the Dominican Republic border gate after being deported to Malpasse, Haiti, Wednesday, June 17, 2015. With tears in his eyes, Thezon said he had lived in the Dominican Republic since age four and didn't know where he, his girlfriend, and two-month-old son would go in Haiti.

SMYRNA BEACH AND ANOTHER IN COCOA BEACH LESS THAN THREE WEEKS AGO. Janine Stanwood: HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF HAITIANS LIVING IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC FACING DEPORTATION IF THEY WANT CAN'T PROVE CITIZENSHIP BY TODAY.

Haitians sleep on the street outside the Ministry of Interior and Police while waiting to register in Santo Domingo June 17, 2015. Haitians show papers while clinging to the fence surrounding the Ministry of Interior and Police as they wait to register in Santo Domingo, June 16, 2015.

The free, day-long fiesta is set to feature loads of live music and tasty food as well as a host of craft and dance workshops. The soundtrack to the event is provided by the likes of the lively Salsa Fuego Band, Colombian singer Angelica Lopez, Los De La Vega Latin Band, Carlos Paul and his band from Ecuador.

In Sept 2013, a Dominican court ruled that 200,000+ natural-born citizens whose parents were undocumented Hatian workers were no longer entitled to citizenship, rendering them stateless and helpless before the law. It's part of a long tradition of militarized, racist pogroms against Hatians, who are black, and Dominicans, who consider themselves white .

Haitian immigrants wait their turn to register for legal residency at the Interior Ministry in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Tuesday, June 16, 2015. The head of the immigration agency in the Dominican Republic says the country is ready to resume deporting non-citizens without legal residency after putting the practice on hold for a year.

Authorities are prepared to resume deporting non-citizens without legal residency in the Dominican Republic after largely putting the practice on hold for a year, the head of the country's immigration agency said Tuesday. Army Gen.

Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop and papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic, will stand trial on criminal charges of paying for sex with minors and possessing child pornography, the Vatican said yesterday. The trial, due to start on July 11, will be the first on such charges inside the tiny city-state that is the headquarters of the 1.2 billion-member Roman Catholic Church.

Juan De Dios Martinez, a resident of Buchanan and a former longtime resident of Ossining for over 30 years, passed away Sunday June 14, 2015 at Rosary Hill Home in Hawthorne. Juan was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic on April 8, 1950 and was the son of Pablo Perez and Carmen Martinez.

Haitian sugar cane workers rally in front of the Haitian embassy demanding the Haitian passports needed to regularize their migration status in the Dominican Republic, in Santo Domingo on June 1, 2015 Garry Pierre-Pierre , editor and publisher of The Haitian Times , discusses the impending deportation of more than a hundred thousand Dominicans born in the Dominican Republic of Haitian parents, and why there hasn't been more support for this minority group from the international community.

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Haitians and other non-citizens stood in long lines across the Dominican Republic on Monday in last-minute bids to secure legal residency, hurrying to beat a looming paperwork deadline along with the threat of possible quick deportation. Lines snaked outside Interior Ministry offices as foreign residents, who are overwhelmingly from neighboring Haiti , sought to submit papers before a 7 p.m. Tuesday deadline.